The demonstrative pronouns are "this," "that," "these," and "those." "This" and "that" are used to refer to singularnouns or noun phrases and "these" and "those" are used to refer to plural nouns and noun phrases.

The verb meaning "to use the pronoun 'thee' to someone" is recorded from 1662, from the rise of Quakerism (see thou).

pronoun formed by combining the base *þa- (see that) with -s, which is probably identical with O.E. se "the" (representing here "a specific thing"), but it may be O.E. seo, imperative of see (v.) "to behold." Cf.

A common pattern is the so-called T-V distinction (named after the use of pronouns beginning in t- and v- in Romance languages, as in French tu and vous).

Reflexive pronouns are used as the object of a sentence when the subject and object match.

In some languages, a personal pronoun has a form called a disjunctive pronoun, which is used when it stands on its own, or with only a copula, such as in answering to the question "Who wrote this page?" Englishpronouns used in this way have caused some dispute.

Note that à + person is replaced by an indirect objectpronoun except with certain verbs.

When these verbs are followed by a person, the disjunctive pronoun will be used, for example, 'Bette pense souvent à Tex. Elle pense souvent à lui.' (Bette often thinks of Tex. She often thinks of him.)

Placement of y is the same as that of direct and indirect pronounobjects: y precedes the verb it refers to, except in the affirmative imperative.

The personal pronouns have their own possessive forms: my ("belonging to me"), your ("belonging to you"), his ("belonging to him"), her ("belonging to her"), our ("belonging to us"), and their ("belonging to them").

pronouns, along with their accompanying modifiers  is who or what does the action of the sentence.

When you are checking pronoun reference then, not having an antecedent--one specific noun or pronoun or two or more nouns or pronouns that are joined so as to act as one antecedent for a pronoun--is a major technical error.

Relative pronouns often are used to refer to an entire situation that has been described prior to the use of the relative pronouns; however, relative pronouns require clear, specific nouns or pronouns acting as their antecedents, just as personal pronouns do.

While the use of relative pronouns can become quite complicated (such as deciding when to use the compound relative pronoun whomever as opposed to whoever), a good rule of thumb for freshman writers to keep in mind is to try to place the simple relative pronouns in the list above immediately after their antecedents.

One way to look at this is: A pronoun is a form of shorthand that we use instead of repeating a certain word or group of words; the word or phrase that the pronoun replaces is a duplicate of the word or phrase that is the pronoun's antecedent.

Collective nouns are referred to by singular or plural pronouns, depending upon whether the sense of the collective noun is singular or plural.

When the pronoun refers to a singular person – for example, a manager, a doctor, a student, an employee, or just a person – grammar requires a singular pronoun.